On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 10:34:30AM +0000, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 22/11/16 10:14, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>>> On 15.11.16 at 11:46, <jbeul...@suse.com> wrote:
> >>>>> On 15.11.16 at 11:26, <andrew.coop...@citrix.com> wrote:
> >>> Everything will indeed break if it is off by 8, but everything will also
> >>> be similarly-broken if it is off by 16 or off by -8.
> >> Off by -8 will be caught as well. And there's no possible off-by-16,
> >> as then the calculations will be right again (read: you can freely
> >> add two longs to struct cpu_info, but you mustn't add just one).
> > This discussion appears to have stalled, and so far I've seen no
> > reason to change other than the position of the checks. I'm
> > hesitant to send out v2 though without having reached agreement
> > on the other aspects.
> 
> Fine - lets get this fix back in for 4.8, then argue over how it should
> be improved.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citrix.com>

Release-acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.l...@citrix.com>

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